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Message: [QUOTE="Tufkas, post: 3521595"] Funny - was chatting just the other day with a good mate who's lived in Indiana his entire life. The "Milan Miracle" is indeed the stuff of legends for all native "Hoosiers." So - sorry - the above post is not quite right. The special features on the blu-ray (and I suppose the DVD) devote an entire segment featuring the original newsreel footage of the fantastical run upon which the film was loosely based. Quoting Wikipedia (which aligns to that newsreel): "The [B]1954 Milan High School Indians[/B] won the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_High_School_Boys_Basketball_Tournament']Indiana High School Boys Basketball Tournament[/URL] championship in 1954. With an enrollment of only 161, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_High_School_(Indiana)']Milan[/URL] was the smallest school ever to win a single-class state basketball title in Indiana, beating the team from the much larger [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muncie_Central_High_School']Muncie Central High School[/URL] in a classic competition known as the [B]Milan Miracle[/B]. The team and town are the inspiration for the 1986 film [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoosiers_(film)']Hoosiers[/URL][/I]. The team finished its regular season 19–2 and sported a 28–2 overall record." The final score was not nearly as provacative: Milan 32, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muncie_Central_High_School']Muncie Central[/URL] 30. According to my mate: the film is as accurate a depiction of Indiana basketball back then as one can image. [/QUOTE]

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